The Tennessee Senate's defeat, last week, of a bill that
would have delayed a switch from paperless e-voting machines to optical
scanners is already having an effect. Shelby County Commissioner Steve Mulroy
is pressing the county election commission to begin the switch. Some counties
in New York will be switching from levers to optical scanners this year, too
testing the uncertified scanners on 1.4 million real voters in real elections
in a 'pilot program.'...

National:
A New Page for Voting: It's Time to Ditch Paper-Based Registration LINK

National: David Epstein: NAMUDNO and the Dilemma
of Observational Equivalence LINK

("The problem is that a world in which Section 5
procedures are unnecessary is observationally equivalent to a world where they
are necessary and completely effective.")

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